STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5830 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY March 23, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. SLATER -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation AN ACT to amend the highway law, in relation to designating a portion of the state highway system in Putnam county as the "Putnam County Purple Heart Highway" The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The highway law is amended by adding a new section 344-o to 2 read as follows: 3 § 344-o. Portion of the state highway system to be designated as the 4 "Putnam County Purple Heart Highway". All that portion of the state 5 highway system constituting interstate eighty-four and lying within the 6 county of Putnam shall be designated and known as the "Putnam County 7 Purple Heart Highway". 8 § 2. The commissioner of transportation shall provide for the instal- 9 lation and maintenance of adequate signing of the state highway system 10 as designated pursuant to section one of this act. However, to avoid 11 confusion and to limit any possible disruption of commerce, the desig- 12 nation called for pursuant to section one of this act shall be of cere- 13 monial nature and the official name of such highway shall not be changed 14 as a result of this act. 15 § 3. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall 16 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD01670-01-3